Nikita Patil, PhD (@nikita-patil,-phd)

Nikita Patil, PhD

co-founder, Aquasaic

Pune, India and Boston, USA
https://www.aquasaic.com

Nikita’s work has focused on studying environmental factors’ impact on human health, starting with direct physiological effects, and expanding to community-wide applications. Throughout her academic career, she has researched the effects of nutrition on aging-related conditions such as heart and brain health. Leveraging her background in bioengineering, she is dedicated to reversing environmental degradation for the betterment of population health. Nikita got her bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from Boston University and her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her postdoctoral research in the neuroscience department of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.

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